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V/Z (Valentina Magaletti & Zongamin)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Purple Trap, the powerful trio of Keiji Haino (voice, guitar), Bill Laswell on bass and Rashied ALI (drums), recorded live on stage at The Stone. Recorded in december 2005, this furious live album by what can easily be called a super group remained unreleased till in 2023 Bill Laswell made it accessible in a rough-mixed digital version for his bandcamp subscribers program exclusively. For this vinyl version, the music has been newly mixed by Dirk Dresselhaus (SchneiderTM) and mastered / cut by RUY Mariné at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin. Purple Trap, the trio of Laswell / Haino / ALI, reunited for this one-off gig as part of a 5-day- Haino-festival at John Zorn’s venue „The Stone“, seven years after its only album Decided ... Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I" had been recorded (released on Tzadik in 1999). The six untitled tracks (+ one as digital bonus) deliver what can be expected from such musical masters: Rashied ALI, iconic free jazz drummer who played with John and Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins, James Blood Ulmer and countless more, is all drums, from quiet tiny sounds to high-energy rhythm patterns. Keiji Haino, one of the most prolific artists of the Japanese experimental / noise scene for almost 50 years now, switches between truculent guitar splatters and full-on psychedelic outbursts. Bill Laswell, who as producer and musician created a massive body of work in fiields as diverse as ambient, world music, funk, jazz (and often hybrids of these), has proven his mastery in improvisation in projects like Massacre, Painkiller or (early) Material and provides the low-end grounding with his signicature bass sound, or adds effect-laden ornaments to the whole. An overdue addition to a very small body of work by a clearly under-documented supergroup!

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It's Cold In Baltimore 2025 Repress

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Offen)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2025 | UK | Original (29 Speedway)

Dorothy Carlos

Ear World

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Music For Saxofone & Bass Guitar

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Ear World, out February 24th on Brooklyn-based record label 29 Speedway, is a collection of sound collage works by experimental cellist Dorothy Carlos. Her debut album ranges from song-like to abstract, incorporating site-specific sound installation work originally premiered in both 16-channel and quadraphonic formats. Voice and cello are reconstructed through glitch techniques to take on a digital form that is flirtatious and fleeting. Carlos is an experimental cellist active in Chicago and New York. Her work utilizes extended techniques and digital manipulation, merging free improvisation and computer music. She is interested in digital techniques as an opportunity to construct imaginary realities and capture a sense of intimacy.

Solo performances have been presented internationally by Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Big Ears Festival, default, Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (cnmat) at UC Berkeley, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and Bemis Center. Her work has been featured in The Wire, New York Times, and The Quietus and released digitally with D.O.T. Audio Arts and American Dreams. Dorothy holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU where she studied classical cello and anthropology and an MFA in sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tracks 2-4 “My Ideal is Windy” quadraphonic installation commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio and the Chicago Park District.

Track 8 “Alter, alter” 16-channel installation premiered at the Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theater (cleat).

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Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes

Tape | US | Original (Leaving)

Release: US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2025 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

Morgan Willis

Hotline Summer

Giulio Erasmus & The End Of The Worm

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Morgan Willis is back and this time with a full release on NRW.

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Live At Meakusma Festival 2024

Tape | 2025 | EU | Original (Meakusma)

Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 001: Woo (Sweet Peas)

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Over the past few years, Giulio Erasmus has been carving out his very own musical idiom, referencing the fragmentative cause-and-effect possibilities of soundsystem culture. Accompanied for the occasion by The End Of The Worm, the recording of this concert highlights the futurist intentions of early 80s underground music in the UK and beyond. Although the expression is clear, there's continuous room for exploration and innovation. With heavy delay effects often cut short, metallic percussion, murky vocals, deconstructed electronics, and miniaturist melodies with snippets of the grandiose and the absurdly urban, all tracks here are patient, explorative, and freeform. Through curves of darkness and curves of light, this is a choreography of ideas, a passing infatuation that runs deep.

Giulio Erasmus was a member of D.U.D.S, Handle, and released his first solo outing, Re-Adjustment, in 2021. His second album, called Second Attempt, was released to acclaim in 2024 and hailed as an extremely modern take on the possibilities of underground pop through the extended ripples of soundsystem culture. Being the son of musical royalty, his father is legendary Factory Records co-founder Alan Erasmus, is almost too easy a reference. Giulio taps into 80s counterculture sonic experiment as a universal musical language that allows for futurism and fragmentation, reversing narrative logic and the transmission of musical ideas.

This recording of the amazing live performance by Giulio Erasmus & The End Of The Worm beautifully captures the investigative and unforgiving nature of all the instrumentalists that were on stage on that warm night last August in Eupen, Belgium. Through spirals of ideas, fragments, and experiment, they built a vapourous yet focused suggestion of openness and endless possibilities.

This live incident involved: Fiona Brunet, Paul Cossé, Romain Simon, Lola Lextrait, Guyilo Erasmus

Recorded and mixed by Etienne Foyer

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Woo

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Music To Watch Seeds Grow By)

The Devil And The River, Volume One

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Woo, formed in 1975 by brothers Mark and Clive Ives in London, is known for its experimental blend of folk, jazz, ambient, and electronic music. Their sound, characterised by the delicate integration of acoustic and electronic elements, has earned them recognition in ambient and healing music spheres. Over decades, the duo has produced over 1,500 tracks, evolving a unique style that evokes dream-like atmospheres and a meditative, soothing quality perfect for moments of reflection.

Dedicated to intertwining the serene beauty of music with the nurturing process of planting seeds when the first new signs of life emerge in the growing season. A carefully crafted collection of ambient & minimalist soundscapes, occasionally branching into the new age. A soundtrack for quiet moments of sowing, nurturing, & witnessing the slow reward of growth.

Each artist will release a recycled cassette and digital format. We plan to release one cassette each month from November through June, aligning our releases with the ideal growing period. Each physical release will precede its digital counterpart by a few months, allowing the music to be experienced in its intended form first, with the tangible connection of a cassette and seeds before becoming accessible to a broader audience in the online sphere. This staggered release allows listeners to engage with the music more profoundly and intentionally, akin to the patience and care required in gardening. Best get that portable cassette player on eBay!

Each release will serve as a soundtrack to quiet moments of sowing, nurturing, and witnessing the slow, rewarding growth process, both in plants and in the listeners' lives. Whether tending to a window sill garden or simply seeking a peaceful retreat in sound, "Music to Watch Seeds Grow By" is an invitation to pause, listen, and cultivate.

Early DJ support including Tom Ravenscroft, Deb Grant, Vladimir Ivkovic,Ruf Dug, Eva Geist, Domenic Cappello, Fergus Clarke & Sofie K.

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William Fowler Collins

Tape | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Karl)

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Ambie-Tón)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In his most recent solo release, “The Devil And The River: Volume One”, recorded live in his rural New Mexico studio, William Fowler Collins tremolo brushes his electric guitar using a calligraphy brush, playing a single chord with no overdubs to produce two compelling side-long pieces of music. Ever present are the minimalist widescreen reflections of the high desert environment in which he lives, with the two sides giving the impressions of a sun rising and then a sun setting over the vast and sparsely populated landscape. The music in the two pieces shifts dynamically from gentle and hypnotic to immense and resonant walls of drone, searing and overdriven. At times the music can suggest a collision between Terry Riley’s “Descending Moonshine Dervishes” and the loud, distorted, emotional abstractions of My Bloody Valentine.

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Ezmeralda

Ruido Y Flor

A State Of Trance Year Mix 2022

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ambient? Sí. But also, a musing on transcendence. So lay down and close your eyes because, on this one, our querida joya @eezzmmeerraallddaa wonders what we all wonder every now and then: good old 'What happens when we die?' We sort of know the drill: the cling, the not wanting to go, the inevitable... the heartbreaking nostalgia of parting ways with this world... and also, the chance to end the pain. Then comes the grief: bye-bye sweetness, chao joy, adiós tenderness... then -¡ayayay! the terror, the slow fade-out, the nothingness. At last, that sparkle in the dark edge of the hiss shows us the way to the ultimate surrender, to then become a garden in the void, and finally return to mamá amor as big beautiful rainbows. This is Ruido y Flor, the first offering of Ambie—Tón: our brave new venture into the heart of the haze

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Armin van Buuren

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Cloud 9)

25,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2025 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Voyage Futur

Unseen Portal

Tape | 2025 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wolfgang Lehmann’s second album of VF’s latest creative cycle leans further into the project’s eclectic acoustic inclinations, arriving at a sound between balearic and kaleidoscopic, progressive and primordial: enter the Unseen Portal. Contributions from his partner Beate Lehmann and brass multi-instrumentalist Alex Kranabetter expand the album’s textural and emotional range, venturing through jazzy lunar fusion (“Moonrise”), 4th world frontiers (“Ancient Treescape”), northern lights new age (“Lost Memory”), and cloud forest downtempo (“Topographic Change”). Like the title makes clear, this is elusive, transportive music, 10 shimmering gateways to hybrid habitats of rhythm, reverie, and refracted magic.

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Voyage Futur

Inverted Land

Tape | 2025 | US | Original (Enmossed)

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Viennese ambient voyager Wolfgang Lehmann returns with a lush, hushed, electro-acoustic suite of fantastical landscapes: Inverted Land. Crafted in collaboration with his partner Beate, and heavily inspired by a recently acquired marimba, the album unfolds in tactile, time-lapse panoramas of gradient color, spatial illusion, and changing light.

The arrangements echo the cosmic vistas of Lehmann’s debut, Secret Earth, but the interplay of VF in duo mode skews more veiled and telekinetic. Twilit silhouettes ebb and flow from a delicate palette of resonance and shadow, attuned to the subcurrents of remote utopias long since reclaimed by nature’s undertow.

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Florian Tm Zeisig

Trax Versions

Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 002: Davis Galvin - Prism (Delphinium Elatum)

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“Ice silver” metallic j-card with holographic silver foil stamping Professionally duplicated at a carbon-neutral facility Edition of 120

"Mix made with 95 % exclusively prev unreleased original materials - edits, outtakes, versions, takes + oneoffs from recording sessions over the past few years.

Made with stems from recent projects and collaborators, including: raw nug tape recordings + snippets Jordan playing flute in a waterfall cave (the one i used in 'Night') + drum edits, live recordings from decks mixing sessions, Róisín's harp and vocal takes from upcoming project, track with Mari, remix for Felipe’s well frozen piano album, Etienne de Lavaulx zither improv mixed from youtube, demos, outtakes and voice memo type field recordings, unreleased track with Joel, unreleased edit of guitar part from JQ,+ outtake from Planet Inc sessions.

peace and blessings x" - Florian TM Zeisig

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Woo

Tape | 2025 | UK | Original (Music To Watch Seeds Grow By)

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Music to Watch Seeds Grow By continues its series of plant-inspired soundscapes with new work from Pittsburgh-based sound artist Davis Galvin. This composition focuses on the Delphinium Elatum, capturing the quiet drama of this striking perennial through carefully constructed ambient textures.

Where their previous work explored the complex electronic territories of the outer technoid reaches, here Galvin turns their attention to the subtle processes of plant growth. The piece unfolds gradually, much like the Delphinium's own journey from seed to flowering plant. Gentle drones and atmospheric elements mirror the plant's various growth stages, from its initial emergence to its ascent to heights of up to two metres. You heard it here first.

The music creates an environment for contemplation, designed specifically for the moments of sowing and tending to these magnificent plants. Galvin's approach, as with all things they turn their ear to, emphasises patience and attention to detail, qualities essential to both gardening and deep listening.

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Shakali

Rihmastossa

Tape | 2024 | MX | Original (Aurora Central)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Based in the South Moravian city of Brno, Finnish multi-instrumentalist Simo Hakalisto aka Shakali crafts surreal terrariums of strings, synthetics, wood, and wind, teeming with bio-electronic synchronicities. Rihmastossa further finesses the project’s eclectic lexicon of electro-acoustic world-building, utilizing a gallery of instruments both ancient and advanced: solar-powered sine wave generators, singing bowls, metallophones, microtonal synths wired into tree slabs, lap harps, amplified found objects, percussion filters, flutes.

This is world music in the most naturalistic sense – subtle spatial ecosystems of climate, vibration, landscape, and species, as alluded to in the track titles about fungal colonies, extinct birds, rare worms, and pine forests. Hakalisto’s work in various exploratory duos (Gnäw, Lunar Horns, Thistle) has honed his instincts for atmospheric improvisation, but when alone he embeds even deeper into the terrain, acting as conduit as much as creator. Across seven free-flowing fugue states of texture and resonance, his touch simmers beneath the surface, guided by shifting light and hidden hands.

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Sarah Belle Reid

Mass

Release: 2024 / MX – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One Weird Tip / Funkytown

Lemon Demon

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

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Bardo Todol & Robert Millis

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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•7" vinyl •Lyric insert •Blue and pink swirled 7" •Download card

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A Magnetic Road To Hell

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Preset)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“A Magnetic Road to Hell” is Robert Millis and Bardo Todol’s first release as a duo. Recorded transcontinentally throughout 2021 and 2022 they traded sounds and ideas between Cordoba, Argentina and Seattle, USA with a stop in Mexico along the way: screamings, rivers, kids, radios, mellotron, records, 78rpm shellac, wax cylinders, field recordings, birds, electronics, guitars, percussion, haze, static, a destroyed Indian piano, talkative violins, talkative people from the 1920s, talkative black and white dreams, tin cans from the streets, Argentinian children's tales about cows being teachers, and more. You’re riding on an unspooling reel of tape, through sounds real and imagined, the tape flapping dangerously, shredding; we are all of us magnetized, attracting together, pushing apart, unwinding onto the floor, stumbling along the road to hell. Robert Millis and Bardo Todol have each released music on many different labels: Sublime Frequencies, Dinzu Artefacts, The Helen Scardale Agency, Discrepant, Abduction Records, Dust-to-Digital, Fire Breathing Turtle, Sub Pop, and Ikuisuus.

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MANASYt

Live At The Cage

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Babau

Stock Fantasy Zone

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Padre Himalaya)

Patricia Brito

Phmix003

10,99 €*

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Paralaxe)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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New quickstrike mixtape from Silvestre's Padre Himalaya label This time is Porto deejay Patricia Brito serving up Jungle, IDM, shoegaze and more.

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Alloy Sea (Mor Ellian)

Xoomin

Ancient Nocturnal Summoning

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Full of dreamy textures and languid melodies, Xoomin is a soundtrack for drifting off into the abyss, but in the hands of Alloy Sea (a.k.a. Mor Elian), that journey feels downright playful. Although the Berlin-based producer is best known for her dancefloor-focused creations, 2020’s Petrichor (a 50-minute composition that officially debuted the Alloy Sea project) showcased an unexpected talent for abstract soundscapes and arrhythmic jitters, hinting at ambient techno but ultimately offering something much more adventurous.

Xoomin—an album that was specifically written for Paralaxe Editions after label founder Dania Shihab reached out to Elian about working together on a new Alloy Sea release—ventures into similarly ethereal waters as Petrichor, but it’s also brighter and more colorful than its predecessor, its gleaming FM synth improvisations flanked by scuttling rhythmic bursts and the occasional wonky bassline, not to mention celestial snippets of Elian’s own voice. It’s not pop, but it’s not quite ambient either, floating instead in a nebulous (and sneakily fun) zone that borrows from new age, IDM and the weirder corners of bass music.

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Corroded Spiral

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Shadow World)

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Leaving)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Corroded Spiral is Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura, Petbrick) Dwid Hellion (Integrity, Psywarfare) and Cardopusher (boyznoise, Arca). Two legends of metal and hardcore come together with one of electronic music's most highly regarded collaborators, and the results are suitably dense, textured, brooding and gnarly. There are (good) hints in the project name and sound, to more binary industrial cues such as Coil or Nine Inch Nails, but actually, this music is more akin to thumping body music of Nitzer Ebb, acid techno, and the monolithic power electronics of Whitehouse or Merzbow. A really killer debut EP! Vital new supergroup Corroded Spiral - comprised of Sepultura co-founder Iggor Cavalera, Venezuelan electronic producer Cardopusher, and Dwid Hellion, founder of early hardcore trailblazers Integrity - announce punishing debut EP Ancient Nocturnal Summoning.

Corroded Spiral’s debut release crosses the boundaries of black metal, hardcore, new wave, industrial and EBM, a sum of decades of experience and powerful musicality from bona fide giants of their respective fields. Its three members contribute not just stylistic influence but three unique voices and a boundless ocean of abilities.

Ancient Nocturnal Summoning captures the intensity, horror and supernatural dread of its title. Its darkness is more creative and more demanding than distorted riffs or blastbeats; but instead is raw, spiritual, apocalyptic, and occasionally illuminated with sparks of melody that shimmer within a suffocating blackness. A seething tension that excavates deep, dark fissures of the soul.

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Av Moves

In A Pause

Tape | 2013 | CA | Reissue (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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AV Moves is the project of LA’s multi-instrumentalist and experimental composer John Jones, previously known as Nerftoss (see Spirit Advantage Lr034 2014).

Originally written during relocation from Baltimore in Spring 2019, In A Pause is ripe for relevant release in our 2020 larger picture. In collaboration with filmmaker Corey Hughes, time and uncertainty have defined this 35minute-long Audio/Visual ambient textural travel that is In a Pause - out November 6th Leaving Records All Genre Q4 2020.

from the author: "I became more intrigued by the idea of the visual context redetermining how a sound is perceived. It was a bit of an obvious observation, but one that I hadn’t fully explored in the process of writing music. I began creating sounds with the intention of aiding a moment, interacting with light, and enhancing the sensory experience. Gradually the sounds I created became defined by these ideas. Through melody, I found ways of deepening these imaginary scenarios. Melody has a way of extracting an emotion that each individual responds to differently. My intention with the melodic elements on what became “In A Pause” was for it to feel deeply personal but in a way that was relatable.
“In A Pause”, as a title, plays against the underlying motives of the album but is especially in reference to where I was in life when choosing it. Most of what was written happened to be during a transitional phase of my life, the months leading up to moving from Baltimore to Los Angeles. In many ways, I felt I had hit a giant imaginary pause button to prepare for the transition. Unintentionally, the title has taken on a much larger meaning as 2020 has produced various tragedies and injustices. Time and uncertainty have slowly redefined my previous perception of the music."

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Luxury Elite

Fantasy

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Bloody Marys With An Angry Goddess

Release: 2013 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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a dream come true. 2021 edition with 4 bonus tracks.

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Ian Richter

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Confused Machines)

Best Available Technology

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A short visit to the Indochinese Peninsula at the wrong time of the global pandemic breakout, led Ian Richter to over a year and a half of living in Vietnam, and to a deep love affair with the Vietnamese folk religion. Ian was intrigued to find a place drenched in culture and mysticism existing hand in hand with hyper capitalism (yet officially committed to socialism). Over the course of the last 18 month Ian recorded, mentally and physically, the sounds of his encounters and experiences. From daily life, through industrial and natural landscapes, to ancient and modern dance, forging foreign with familiar, mysticism with science, and claustrophobia with liberation.

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Untitled

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (blundar)

Luminol Red Glitter Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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*c50 length Cassette Tape* "Best Available Technology joins `blundar ́ C50 tape series followed by Blundar12 LP"

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Midwife

Tape | 2021 | US | Original (The Flenser)

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (blundar)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Midwife is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developing her experimental pop project. As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “Heaven Metal,” or emotive music about devastation - catharsis.

When 2020 began, Johnston had several national and international tours planned, but the pandemic shifted her focus back to recording, and back to her internal landscape. Midwife’s third full length record, Luminol, was written and produced during quarantine.

Luminol is a chemical used by forensic investigators to reveal trace amounts of blood left at a crime scene. When it reacts with blood, luminol emits a chemiluminescent blue glow that can be seen in a darkened room. In the same way this chemical reveals evidence at a scene, Midwife is interested in profound truth - turning trial and tribulation into sources of light.

Luminol navigates themes of incarceration, locus of control, clarity, self harm, confinement, agency, and truth-seeking, all erupting in a bioluminescent Rothko color-field of blue.

The Luminol album cover shows a dark figure standing at the edge of a body of water. It symbolizes the way humanity had been on a precipice throughout 2020, to later find out they had been there all along. Being one of Midwife’s most personal records, Luminol's cover artwork is a picture of Madeline Johnston's mother taken in the 1980’s, when she was the same age as Madeline at the time of recording. By redacting the figure, Johnston hopes that anyone could see themselves there, by the water, as a form leftover when all the elements of their lives are stripped away and what is left is a host.

Luminol features collaborations from Tucker Theodore, Angel Diaz (Vyva Melinkolya), Zachary Cole Smith, Ben Newman, and Colin Caulfield (diiv), and Dan Barrett (Have A Nice Life).

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Bantam Lions

Untitled

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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100 copies only. C50 tape recording of Bantam Lions soundscapes. A preamble to a forthcoming 12” (blundar9) release in jointure with Best Available Technology.

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First Wave - Drift Ambient Compilation

Tape | 2020 | CA | Original (Drift)

26,99 €*

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First Wave is the very first compilation and physical release on Drift, the sub ambient label of Inner Ocean Records. We've gathered together some of the best emerging ambient artists, alongside artists who have been music creators for decades. The result is a very special and diverse collection of music, melding together a myriad of genres into a cohesive body of work to stand the test of time; a true work of art.

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Only Now & Orogen

Avuls

Tape | 2018 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Longstanding collaborators & Bay Area based experimental duo Kush Arora & Lucas Patzek aka Only Now & Orogen return with ‘avuls’, the project’s sophomore release. Building on the unearthly, black hole transmissions and creaking, exospheric ambience of their self-titled debut, Only Now & Orogen present an abyssal, elemental broadcast from another unchartered extra-terrestrial zone. Remote and astronomical yet tied to a newfound sense of rhythmic structure, ‘avuls’ navigates a course through inverted beat-led frameworks, surging detonations of sub-bass, and severely turbulent, monumentally scaled soundscapes

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Geo Metro

Scivias

Moves Vs Talking Squirrel Beattape

Release: 2018 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Real time Hi-Res Audio cassette tape on grey-blue tinted shells. Limited edition of /50.

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DJ Moves

Tape | 2017 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Tape | 2019 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Release: 2017 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pro dubbed on c60 cassette tape. Comes on Butterscotch Brick shells with double hit red ink pad printing in black back norelco cases and double-sided full colour printed J-cards. A limited ediition of 100.

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Farragol

Kalerloop

Tape | 2017 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Release: 2019 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pro manufactured on light blue tinted cassette tape with double hit violet pad printing in black back norelco cases and double-sided full colour printed J-cards. A limited edition run of 100.

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Toyohirakumin

Drive

Tape | 2019 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

Release: 2017 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pro manufactured limited edition run / 100 with LED printed shells and full colour artwork in norelco cases.

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Negative Gemini

Body Work

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2012 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Vex Ruffin

Same Thing Tomorrow

11,99 €*

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Karl)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ten new tracks from Chino, CA’s favorite son Vex Ruffin, only on cassette!

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David Wallraf

Crudeltá Necessaria

Otherworld Silver Tape Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Noise artist David Wallraf returns with his second album on Karl - “ Crudeltá Necessaria” deals with the role of cruelty in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini. David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist living in Hamburg. His artistic work deals with the repressed and uncanny sonic residues of quotidian life, crafting soundtracks for the creeping disaster we inhabit. His works have been released on numerous international tape labels. A recent interest of his is the live scoring of silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet. In the academic world, Wallraf graduated with a BA in musicology at University of Hamburg, MA in time based media at Hochschule für bildende Künste, PhD on noise at Hfbk, h is PhD thesis “Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen” (Limits of Hearing. Noise and the Acoustics of the Political) has been published in German. He also regularly gives l ectures on power relations in music, noise-theory, sound art/studies and the politics of listening. “ Crudeltá Necessaria”, the follow-up to last year’s „The Commune Of Nightmares“, deals with the role of cruelty in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini by blending noise, raw electronics and field recordings into a detailed dystopian sonic experience that „you don’t have to be afraid of“ (R. Mießner, taz). In the words of Wallraf himself: „ The world (another word for society) is cruel in a banal sense: unjust, brutal and segregating. Life under capitalism is the generalized and global form of this cruelty, organized by the logic of Kr119_d. Wallraf - Crudeltá Necessaria_infotext.pdf abstract labor and alienation. But cruelty also carries a different meaning, one that has resonated with a few artists of the 20 th century who positioned themselves against the cruel banality of their times. Cruelty in the sense of mercilessness or remorselessness, both a realism and a necessary stance in a battle against an overly powerful enemy. Antonin Artaud’s conception of the theater of cruelty exemplifies this stance, an “appeal to cruelty and terror [...] whose range probes our entire vitality, confronts us with all our possibilities” ( The Theater and Cruelty ). All our possibilities: an affirmation of radical difference. A similar posture, although it replaces Artaud’s mysticism with a communist viewpoint, can be found in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was a merciless analyst and critic of society under capitalist production. His answer to the banal brutality of capitalism was an artistic cruelty of his own design, a necessary cruelty which is evident in the films and texts that inspired these recordings. It is evident in the transformations and transitions of the novel-fragment Petrolio , it glares and screams from the screen in his films. You can hear it in the last and only words of the young cannibal in Porcile (“I killed my father. I ate human flesh. I quiver with joy.”), in Medea’s curse against Iason (“It’s useless! Nothing is possible anymore!”) and in the Sphinx’s desperate cry when murdered by Oedipus (“It’s useless! The abyss you’re throwing me in is in yourself!”). It gazes through the masks of mythological and historical settings. It is evident in the almost violent way Pasolini edited his films, a form of Verfremdungseffekt that exemplifies his remorseless stance towards his audience, the spectacle of the film industry, fascism and capitalistic society. This necessary cruelty serves as a last line of defense in the political and artistic struggle against societal and political pressure. With this release I hope to capture at least a fragment of this demeanor.”

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Jessie Frye

Tape | 2025 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | CA | Original (Ulyssa)

Toe Hunters

21,99 €*

Release: 2024 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Ulyssa)

Toejazz For Debby

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Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | CA | Original (Ulyssa)

Bitches Toe

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Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Un Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi)

American Monoxide

Microwave Ensemble

Transit Tribe (Extended Version)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Amateur planetarium music, slacker techno, and alternativeatmospherics from home recording hobbyist: Dimitri Manos

Dimitri Manos lives in downtown Tucson, Arizona. He has been home recording as "American Monoxide" since around 2009. The process is very personal like a journaling with sounds and a chance to experiment with recording. For this batch of songs he thought to change the framework and reach out to some friends for collaboration. These friends have become the "Microwave Ensemble".

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Ulrich Troyer

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (4Bit Productions)

Tape | 2025 | US | Original (Ghostly International)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ulrich Troyer has been producing music now solidly for over twenty years within a largely genre free framework, but whilst navigating forms such as avant-garde, techno, leftfield, field recording, electronica, glitch and ambient it is the aesthetics of dub that guide his creative direction. Not really recognisable in an orthodox form as remixed versions of roots reggae songs but in the way sonics are manipulated with space, the application and layering of delay, reverb and echo that fixes his output well within the scope of what might be called futurist dub.

The nearest comparisons to his new album Transit Tribe can only be established by a synthesis of some of the more adventurous explorations in modern music such as African Head Charge, Jon Hassell, Pole (Stefan Betke), Bill Laswell or even Miles Davis; featuring a diverse selection of artists and friends not only from Vienna and environs but also from around the world, sounds are not so much fused but allowed to float along the continuous flowing tide of warm waves of bass.

Rather than to allow the names of Ulrich Troyer's collaborators be merely listed in the album credits, what they bring to this joyful affair needs to be outlined, albeit briefly: Co-producer credits go to Osman Murat Ertel from Istanbul, who employed a variation on the old foolproof Nick Lowe method for checking out the impact quality of his own sound productions by playing tracks through his car sound system speakers!
Murat is a member of the electro-psych-folk group Baba Zula where he plays electric saz, oscillators and theremin and played a key part in the creative development of the album. Mamadou Diabate, the balafon master originally from Burkina Faso and now resident in Vienna, has developed his own unique technique of playing solos that replicate the sound of three instruments playing in unison; however the multi-talented Mamadou is engaged here on singing and playing the talking drum. From South Tyrol Reinhilde Gamper is a member of the experimental trio Greifer who are bringing the sound of the zither into the twenty-first century using new playing techniques and electronic gadgets. Susanna Gartmayer is an Austrian composer and bass clarinetist specialising in improv and multimedia sound research. Diggory Kenrick has been engaged with creating new dub fusions and also re-energising classic rocksteady and roots reggae classics, renowned for his interventions on flute. Didi Kern is an electronic dance musician and drummer from Vienna with a focus on free improvised music. Hamidou Koita, a singer and multi-instrumentalist, is from a traditional Griot family in Burkina Faso but now resident in Vienna and a regular musical partner of Mamadou Diabate playing drums and calabash. Austrian Lukas Lauermann is both a studio and live musician playing cello, also working on electronic sound design and writing string arrangements. He has recorded extensively and appeared on stage with both Mark Lanegan and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Martin Mallaun is a Tyrol-born specialist in both the development of the zither in modern music and also as a researcher in the effects of climate change on the vegetation of Alpine ecosystems. Mystica Tribe is the musical alias of Tokyo-based dub/techno producer Taka (Takafumi) Noda. He collaborated with Vienna's own Vegetable Orchestra on 2020's "Transplants (Mystica Tribe Version)". After studying classical percussion Flip Philipp is now a jazz vibraphone player and member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Wolfgang Pfistermüller is a member of the Vienna Trombone Quartet and the developer of the incredible bass-trombone Aurora with its uniquely warm and resonant sound. Roger Robinson is a renowned British poet, winner of many contemporary poetry prizes and member of the experimental music group King Midas Sound. Kwame Yeboah is a Ghanaian born UK based keyboard wizard who tours regularly with Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Ms. Dynamite and Pat Thomas.

So contained on the album is an astonishing mix of musicians and instruments: sounds of cowbells recorded in the South Tyrolean alps processed by modular synthesizers and heavy analogue bass synths combined with instruments such as zither, bass-zither, electro saz, flute, talking drum, trombone, cello, vibraphone, marimba, djembe, contra-alto clarinet, melodica, Farfisa - all bound together by organic live-drums and dub effects.

Liner notes by Steve Barker
(DJ, Radio Presenter - On the Wire, BBC 1984 – 2023, now Slack City Radio & reggae/dub columnist and contributor to The Wire)

Credits:

Mamadou Diabate: vocals (3) & talking drum (3)
Osman Murat Ertel: electric saz (6, 7) & guitar (7)
Reinhilde Gamper: zither & bass-zither (9, 10)
Susanna Gartmayer: contra-alto clarinet (8)
Diggory Kenrick: flute (2)
Didi Kern: drums (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14), percussion (3, 6, 10, 14, 15), voice (14)
Hamidou Koita: vocals (3), djembe (3)
Lukas Lauermann: cello (1)
Martin Mallaun: zither (9, 10)
Taka Noda: melodica (11)
Wolfgang Pfistermüller: trombone (1)
Flip Philipp: vibraphone (10, 12, 15), c-marimba (1, 9, 12, 13), percussion (6)
Roger Robinson: vocals (4)
Ulrich Troyer: analog synthesizers (1-13, 15), analog drum-machines (1-15), e-bass (1, 5, 7), sampler (1-14), prepared zither (1, 10), field recordings (3, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15), dub effects (1-15)
Kwame Yeboah: rhodes (5), vox (5), farfisa (5)

Written & arranged by Ulrich Troyer except 2 written by Diggory Kenrick & Ulrich Troyer / 3 written by Mamadou Diabate, Hamidou Koita & Ulrich Troyer / 4 written by Roger Robinson & Ulrich Troyer / 5 written by Kwame Yeboah & Ulrich Troyer / 6 & 7 written by Osman Murat Ertel & Ulrich Troyer / 11 written by Takafumi Noda & Ulrich Troyer / 14 written by Didi Kern & Ulrich Troyer

Recorded by Ulrich Troyer at 4Bit Studio & 4Bit Bungalow, Vienna - except: electro saz on track 6, 7 & guitar on track 7 recorded by Osman Murat Ertel at Saniki Studio, Istanbul / flute on track 2 recorded by Diggory Kenrick at Holloway Studio, London / melodica on track 11 recorded by Takafumi Noda at Mystica Sound Studio, Tokio / vocals on track 4 recorded by Roger Robinson at Dog Heart City Studios / vibraphone & c-marimba recorded by Ulrich Troyer at Konzerthaus, Vienna / rhodes, vox & farfisa on track 5 recorded by Kwame Yeboah at Kwashibu Music Studio, Accra

Mixed by Ulrich Troyer at 4Bit Studio & 4Bit Bungalow, Vienna
Produced by Ulrich Troyer & Osman Murat Ertel / kindly supervised by Diggory Kenrick
Cover Artwork: Ink drawings & design by Ulrich Troyer / kindly supervised by Eva Kelety
Mastering & Laquer-Cut: Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin

Special thanks to Steve Barker, Mamadou Diabate, Osman Murat Ertel, Reinhilde Gamper, Susanna Gartmayer, Eva Kelety, Diggory Kenrick, Didi Kern, Hamidou Koita, Lukas Lauermann, Martin Mallaun, Roland Mitterer, Taka Noda, Wolfgang Pfistermüller, Flip Philipp, Roger Robinson, Kassian Troyer, Kwame Yeboah and Ben Ziel

Kindly supported by: City of Vienna (ma7 - Kultur), Federal Ministry Republic of Austria (Arts, Culture, Civil Service & Sport), Ske-fonds (at) & Amt für Kultur, Bolzano/Bozen (it)

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Studio

West Coast

Tape | 2025 | US | Original (The Flenser)

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Some called Studio, the project of Swedish musicians Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, "the missing link between The Cure and Lindstrom," Pitchfork heard Durutti Column and Can, as the duo's story became swept up in a loosely developing scene _ adjacent first to the label Service (Jens Lekman, The Whitest Boy Alive) and later Sincerely Yours (The Tough Alliance, jj) _ and a precursor to the 2010s boom at the axis of electronic and psychedelic music guided by indie greats like Caribou, Four Tet, and Darkside. West Coast, their seminal 2006 debut, captured a faraway romanticism of Balearic brushed up against Krautrock, disco, dub, and afrobeat, with pop lyricism lifted from new wave, all made modern by two art school grads in Gothenburg. First pressed in a small vinyl-only run via their own Information label, the album has been notably absent from most streaming services, and the internet's record of its initial impact is all but fossilized from a bygone blog era, while its sound is simply untraceable to any one moment in music. Outside of three 7" releases, they'd keep the music to themselves for several more years. In 2005, Hägg remembers, "We got our degrees and were kicked out of our studio spaces so all these recordings were just piled up. A year later we dusted them off and started to deconstruct and assemble them in a more drawn-out fashion." In the same breadth, they cite DJ Screw, J Dilla, and Joy Division, along with early `80s European live DJ sets from the likes of Beppe Loda, Dj Mozart, and Baldelli as reference points. "The anything-goes mentality was very encouraging and was a big cornerstone to the Studio sound," says Hägg. "But there's so much more to the picture, we were not that young then and had lots of musical baggage in our suitcases, the new thing was that we finally let it all come through, not bound by any borders that was often the case with music identity in Sweden during the 90s." In the afterglow of the record's 2007 reception, Studio receded from view, clouded behind a mountain of remix requests (including one for Kylie Minogue that saw release) and label bureaucracy. "It's easy to wish we would have done some proper recordings of our own instead," Hägg reflects. But both artists, now well into respective careers beyond Studio, have come to peace with West Coast as their most enduring effort together. Lissvik adds, "It serves as a good reminder for me to keep to that decision and promise and to continue exploring and growing."

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Kathryn Mohr

Waiting Room

Making Records: Home Recordings C. 1890-1920

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The music of San Jose-based artist Kathryn Mohr exists in a liminal space of auditory dissociation. Drawing inspiration from lost items washing up on the shore of the San Francisco Bay, Mohr’s art chases the ephemeral nature of humanity, the warping of memory, and how trauma changes one’s experience of this world.

Her new album Waiting Room—out January 24 on The Flenser—was written and self-recorded over the course of a month in eastern Iceland, within the walls of a disused fish factory surrounded by remote nature. Mohr spent hours immersed in the writing and recording of this album in a windowless concrete room lit with a string of multicolored light bulbs (which made their way into the album art), taking breaks to wander the factory or disappear up the shoreline—field recorder in hand. What came out of those recording hours are songs inspired by horror as extravagant as limb amputation by a faulty elevator and lyrics as maze-like and misguided as the torturous love and fears they depict.

During this period of isolation in the tiny fishing village of Stöðvarfjörður, Mohr was all too aware of a feeling of waiting, attuned to all the worm-like emotions and memories that crawl out of the ground when there is nothing and no one to distract. She spent most time in the factory, which had sat derelict for a decade, and was in the process of being repurposed into a space for artists, with many parts left untouched since the last days of fish production and other rooms made new with heat and light. This state of incompleteness, of loss of meaning, and repurposing became a mirror of her inner world, her abandoned ideas of home, love, affection, and meaning dissolved by traumatic memories of violence. Waiting Room is a processing of nearly untouchable emotions—of rebuilding the foundation for which elusive words like affection, passion and home can have a meaning weatherproof to and detangled from the direct, physical and emotional violence that permeates our experiences on earth.

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Death Is Not The End

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Death Is Not The End)

Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A collection of DIY phonographic home recordings, transferred from blank and repurposed brown and black wax cylinders, dating back to between the late 1800s and early 1900s.

"Cylinder phonographs first entered the parlor in the late 1890s and stayed until displaced by newer technologies in the 1920s. They brought professional entertainers into our homes and let us command their performances at will. They also gave us the power to record. For the first time in human history we could take sonic selfies, audio snapshots with friends, and aural portraits of loved ones. Our phonographs captured the sounds of everyday life, both silly and serious: the baby's squalling, Johnny's naughty joke, Grandma's favorite hymn as only she could sing it, our letters to loved ones in foreign lands or 100 years in the future. In our own homes we spoke unfettered by commercial concerns or ethnographers' expectations. Our phonographs observed who we were and what we valued without interference or judgement." – David Giovannoni

Cover image text excerpt taken from How to Make Records at Home with an Edison Phonograph, 1910.

Recordings courtesy of The David Giovannoni's Collection of home cylinder recordings housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara cylinder audio archive.

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Angel 1

Purple Haze

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Oca

Preset Music

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2018 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Poemme

Moments In Golden Light

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Sofie Birch

Island Alchemy

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Loris S. Sarid

Music For Tomato Plants

8,36 €* 9,29 € -10%

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Fine Grains)

Moroka

Junction Tape

11,99 €*

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Aird Tapes)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Eight no-nonsense tracks, straight to the point. Moroka delivers the goods in this raw, unpolished gem of a release. Constructed in a week at home in Loughborough Junction after a conversation with FG boss Alex - these cuts are all about the energy, no time wasted on refinement. The drums rumble and shuffle, crashing into each other with an unpredictable rhythm that keeps you on your toes. The narrative here is simple: Mo, his neighbourhood, and his gear. Early support and plays from Shy One, Scratcha DVA, D Bridge & Mr Beatnick. Photography by Charlie Birch, design by Alex Horne, tape covers riso printed at Terry Bleu, Amsterdam.

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Marcy

Aird Tapes 1.2

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Aird Tapes)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Marcy is a DJ who has blessed many music scenes from being a part of The Rye Wax family to regularly appearing on Kindred radio, her sets span intricate realms of focused left field landscapes.

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Pasta Kebab

Aird Tapes 1.6

Tape | 2000 | UK | Reissue (Tru Thoughts)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pasta Kebab is a true genre-bender with eardrums that love all things dubbed-out with wonkykicks and eclectic melodies. Pasta Kebab spreads her ears across the world, although there is always hints of the distinct UK sounds.

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Bonobo

Animal Magic

Release: 2000 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cassette | 2024 | EU | Original (Muscut)

Nikolaienko

Meta

19,99 €*

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (The Tapeworm)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Metallophone and tape music by Nikolaienko

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Runar Magnusson

Inside Out Of Chaos

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Mais Um)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Runar Magnusson is an Icelandic/Danish sound artist and musician, currently based in Austria. With a masters degree in Electronic Music Composition from The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark, he is inspired by the sounds of nature, noise, and meditation. Magnusson specialises in atmospheric disturbances through minimalist compositions. A sly humour cuts through the dark hues of his works.

Magnusson writes: "The two works which make up "Inside Out of Chaos" are somewhat related. They were made at the same time and share the same source materials somewhat – a pool of sounds I had been experimenting with for a couple of years. Two separate projects created the opportunities for me to realise them in these finished forms.

At the beginning of 2020 I was invited to participate in an acousmatic concert series at the Traktorfabrikken in Vienna. Curated by Austrian composer Christian Tschinkel and performed on his Akusmonautikum sound system this particular event, titled Kill & Kaoss, was the last in the series. I named my piece after the event and dedicated it to Tschinkel´s Akusmonautikum system. Without my knowing, I had witnessed this system in action half a year earlier at a concert at the Hermann Nitsch Museum in Mistelbach, with Hermann Nitch playing the organ and Tschinkel operating the sound system – a profoundly enjoyable performance. I was very happy when I connected the dots soon after the invitation to participate. I intended my work for Kill & Kaoss to be a way to greet the new lunar year of the rat – a year which held many surprises… The event took place on 22nd of February 2020 at Traktorfabrikken, Vienna.

"Inside Out (for Trattner)" was composed for Austrian artist Josef Trattner. It was the soundtrack for a film that was a part of his exhibition "Inside Out" at the Kiesler Foundation in Vienna, 2020. I assisted with the installation of the exhibition, itself a filmed action that evolved into the movie of which this is the score. The installation was a very hard physical process that left me bloody and blistered. It was also a fascinating, trance-inducing experience. Mining with ones bare hands, digging out this huge structure and creating a womblike cave, a tunnel system, a playground, a hideaway while experiencing ever-increasing pain in the fingers and hands. The exhibition ran from 27 February 2020 until 23 December 2020.

I consider this release as the final part of a trilogy I refer to as "the three sisters of sorrow". These three releases are an insight into my state of mind at the time – a mental collapse, somewhat triggered by a move to a new country, the death of my friend Jóhann Jóhannsson and the loss of my father a year later. Between 2018 and 2021 I had the trilogy almost ready but had not been able to finish them. I sought professional help to lift me up from the deep and was diagnosed with Adhd, which explained many things in my life. Only after the darkness had lifted could I see that these three releases were connected. They depicted both the mental state I had been in – an incapacitating downward spiral, a crushing chaos – and also my search for the light, a way out of the maze and my path up to the surface."

Runar Magnusson, Vienna, 13 November 2023

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Sanam

Live At Cafe Oto

19,99 €*

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Live recording of the final show of Sanam's debut European 2023 tour at London's home for experiemntal music, Cafe Oto.

Beirut's Sanam burst on the scene in 2023 with their debut album Aykathani Malakon, chosen by The Guardian as one of their 5-star albums from 2023: "Aykathani Malakon thoroughly embodies their originating influences, whipping up kosmische, post-punk, psych rock, free jazz and Levantine folklore into an alchemical tour de force delivered with a defiant, DIY disposition".

Under difficult conditions, the band took to the road for a European tour in November 2023 with the final show at Café Oto. From their incendiary European debut earlier that month at LeGuessWho then rapturous, sold out shows in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and the UK, spirits for the Cafe Oto gig were high and it was destined to be a tour highlight. 'Live at Café Oto' captures the intensity of the shows, a ritual where improvised rock, free jazz and noise underscored an exorcism of traditional Egyptian song and Arabic poetry.

Drummer Pascal Semerdjian adds: "On this tour, I felt the album evolve from being a set of improvised tracks captured spontaneously, into ripe solid songs. Playing these shows back-to-back, our chemistry kept growing, we got closer, and our live sets, at least to me, were an embodiment of this evolution. In a way, this was the real birth of the band"

Vocalist Sandy Chamoun: "We started the tour with a great push at LeGuessWho, and we kept this energy throughout the whole tour. Every gig felt like I was playing the songs for the first time, providing a new and fresh experience for me. We finished the tour with an emotionally intense gig at Cafe Oto, a dream venue. The audience was incredible, as if we had known each other for a long time and the energy was intense and intimate at the same time; it felt like we were in a small circle of fire together, both us and the audience."

"There was definitely magic in the air for our show at cafe oto - an iconic, humble and warm venue and the last show of the tour – it felt like everything was in the right place. It was my favourite show by far, specially that we were also comfortably able to talk about Palestine, the atrocity we have to live with and can't ignore." Pascal Semerdjian

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FM Skyline

Images

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Fixt)

Freqgen

Future 1990s

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2018 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Indalaska

Poésie Surnaturelle

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Gas28a

Dao Hac

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Jukka Herva

Kultainen Nauha

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Hospital Productions)

Regis

Play Neutral

12,39 €* 16,53 € -25%

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Glossy Mistakes)

Hannah Archambault

Uneven Places Of Love

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hannah Archimbault is a multidisciplinary French artist based in London. Hannah opens up her inner deep emotions throughout minimal sequences and loops of sustained and touching organ notes, with reminiscences of Philip Glass, Eva-Maria Houben, Harold Budd or Kali Malone and a contemporary vein that questions love in current times. "The EP came after a break up as I decided to compose in the process of going through this love grief and how you could grow from it, learn to love oneself after the break-up. Each song represents a different stage on this life chapter.". Indeed moving anger, sadness and acceptance are well represented on this sonic, brave redemption of the grief through the artform.

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Serpente

Cornos

The Way Sound Moves Drawing Over And Over The Blueprint Of A Loop For Every Situation

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A more upfront and streamlined proposition than last year's 'Dias da
Aranha' on Souk, 'Cornos' is a reflection of Serpente's solo live
apparitions throughout this last year.
A cycle tainted by tragedies and a maze-like feeling of loss, 'Cornos'
mirrors both the urge of overcoming and its ghostly remnants through
five digressions that pulsate with crippled rhythmic symmetries and loner
harmonic motifs. Maybe just the sound of moving on with broken legs.

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Till Hormann

Tape | 2023 | DE | Original (Bad Boy Jesus Tape Club)

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Hiraeth)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Music performed, recorded and mixed by Till Hormann. Mastered by René Huthwelker. Cover photograph by Raphael Dillhof.

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Escaping Aghartha

Avian

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Two Form A Click Vs Horacio Pollard

Backpfeifenphaseshift

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Futura Resistenza)

Tape | 2025 | UK | Original (100%)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Two Form a Click (DJ Snaffy, Wretchen Redspiders) collide with Horatio Pollard to deliver two sides of beautifully coalesced psychedelic synthesis, heavy with dub's production values and freed from the grid of analog electronics.

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Morcheeba

Escape The Chaos

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Graded)

Midland

Fragments Of Us

Cheb Terro Vs. DJ Die Soon

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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‘Fragments of Us', the 13-track debut album from DJ/Producer Midland will arrive in stores physically in Vinyl, CD & Tape format and across all digital and streaming outlets on October 4th, 2024. The album comes via Midland’s own imprint, Graded. The cover art is a photo by his brother Dom Agius, and the type and graphics are by longtime friend and designer, Nick Shea.

Alongside the announcement, Midland has shared the lead single ‘Never Enough’.

The full length album from which the single is taken features the voices of some Midland’s artistic heroes including Arthur Russell, Marlon Riggs, David Wojnarowicz alongside the contemporary voices of Stereogamus’ Jonny Seymour and Horse Meat Disco’s Luke Howard.

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Cheb Terro & DJ Die Soon

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Drowned By Locals)

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Yellow Swans Archive)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon features Cheb Terro's posthumous vocals on Die Soon's beats; a work that was finished one day before Terro's tragic passing. Starting somewhere in the last quarter of 2020, having approached Daisuke Imamura aka DJ Die Soon for a release, and just heard about Cheb Terro's work with his Toxic Club, Drowned By Locals made the hook up that would result in a match made in the Underplanet, as Terro would describe it.

Hailing from the city of Sousse in Tunisia, the site of the worst of several Jihadist attacks in recent years, Cheb Terro's writings and delivery embody the violence stemming from the frustration shared by Tunisia's new generation; and reflect sadness, rebellion and an obsession with death.

Rayen Hermassi, aka Cheb Terro, was a multifaceted artist; writer, rapper, video editor, designer and founder of Toxic Club, the first Tunisian movement to merge horrorcore, hip hop, hardcore punk, Memphis gangster rap, devil shyt, vaporware, tinged with occult elements taken from the country's mystic past.

Daisuke Imamura is a Berlin-based artist born in Japan. His releases include 'Kappa Slap' [Morphine Records], in which Die Soon collaborates with Ecko Bazz, Infinite Livez, MC Yallah, Lord Spikeheart from Duma, and MA; and his latest production for Sekelembele split with Swordman Kitala [Hakuna Kulala].

In commemoration of the too-soon departed Rayen Hermassi, Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon is planned to release on March 25th, 2022, the day of Rayen's passing, on digital and vinyl - Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Rayen Hermassi's share of proceeds will go to his family.

released March 25, 2022

Music and cover art by Daisuke Imamura
Vocals and lyrics by Rayen Hermassi
Mastered by Rashad Becker

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Emna Maaref | Ma3azef |شب تيرو ودي جاي داي سون(Cheb Terro Vs DJ Die Soon) Review
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Yellow Swans

Out Of Practice I

Tape | 2025 | UK | Original (Digital Stin)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Billed as the first in a series of releases documenting the duo’s reunion last year, ‘Out of Practice I’ finds Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindel Saloman raiding their archive to excavate a bunch of fragments now arranged into “verrrry loose” songs. The first side was recorded at Denver’s Glob in November last year, and leads in remarkably slowly, spluttering through a haze of garbled noise and close-miked madness before Saloman’s unmistakable sustained wails just about emerge thru the static. Their saturated gusts curl around choral fragments as their guitar slowly mutates into a shoegaze gloop of strangled harmonics. And still, they’re not quite done: when the smoke clears, acoustic twangs shuttle us into a different landscape entirely, flipping the piece on its head. Dubbed at Austin’s Oblivion Access in June, ‘Side B’ is a different rendering of the same basic principles. The duo sail into cacophony quicker, offsetting their pebble-dashed concrète with visceral squeals, and when the harmonic relief finally arrives, it’s blown into foghorn trails of blistered feedback. It’s YS at their most ferocious, spangling through a good few minutes of harsh noise before the feedback wilts into melancholy, leading us out with a slow hum as electrical sparks shimmer into the aether.

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Cloud Management

Unfinished Business

Tape | 2025 | JP | Original (Zouen Keikaku)

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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German trio Cloud Management approached Digital-Sting in late 2023 and started a conversation concerning a loose configuration of improvisations, studio experiments and rehearsaljam recordings. The timing was particularlyserendipitous with Feel Free Hi Fi fresh off a West Coast USA tour with Exotic Gardens where we had spent several long drives along the California coast listening to Cloud Managementsprior records on Altin Village. The second of which included collaborations with Exotic Gardens. This release " Unfinished Business" inhabitsmuch of the musical history and influences foundational to the Digital Sting sound and ethos making the link up an obvious one. I don't want to be overlypredictable in the comparison to the great body of work created by German legendslike Moebius, Roedelius, Plank and others but it is there. Also present are heavy doses of dub wandering not too far from the furthest out zones created by African Head Charge or Dub Syndicate. Some creeping psychedelic unease in the way of Industrial Records also sits in the mix. Comparisons aside, Cloud Managements embrace of collaboration and jammy experimentalism create a sound that is unique and a bit rare in the contemporary dub and electronic music continuumwhere perceptions of genre restrictions can guide a bit too much. The two side long continuoustracks documented in this release lock in and groove as much as they wander, drift and break apart in subtle shifting ways making for special repeat listening where something new is always waiting.

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Yaryu

Bongaku

Tape | 2025 | JP | Original (Zouen Keikaku)

Release: 2025 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Yaryu's second release, featuring Takuro Okada and Acid Mothers Temple's Makoto Kawabata, is now available on cassette tape. A cassette tape version of the second album by Yaryu, a musical group that keeps fixed members to a minimum, replacing them each time they create a song or perform live, and continues to improvise freely and uninhibitedly, will be released by Zoukei Kikaku. The improvisational nature of spiritual jazz, the fervor of psychedelic rock, and the spirituality of pure Japanese music all take shape in transparent ambient textures. A DL code for a collection of previously unreleased songs is included in the cassette tape version only.

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Yaryu

For Damage

Love-Fidelity Or Hiss Goodbye

Release: 2025 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Nikolaienko

Cassette | 2025 | EU | Original (Muscut)

23,99 €*

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Kit)

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye" is Dmytro Nikolaienko’s fourth solo album released on Muscut. Similar to his previous work, "Meta," this new album adheres to the same principles and limitations, focusing on acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments.

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Mazy Day

Go 'Swish

Tape | 2025 | EU | Original (Stroom)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Goldsmiths graduate, visual artist and composer Maz Gilkes - aka Mazy Day - untethers a debut of simmering organ improvisations and disembodied pop, with Go 'Swish.

Working from organ recordings made in a Cornish church, Mazy can be heard toying with familiar structures, as popular music forms and progressions are delicately pulled apart and held up to the bliss and crackle of electroacoustic light.

The album reads like a crumpled collection of charcoal rubbings; melodies and hooks traced and pondered over like bundled inscriptions - a burnished record of exultant song, from a forgotten place and time.

Recommended if you like Sarah Davachi, Aphex Twin, Klein, Low.

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Inkasso & Ml

Fashion Recession

Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 003: Graintable (Blue Flax)

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"At the end of the day, a new one begins. Sometimes dust covers the wounded human spirits, nebulizing their ambitious world with melancholy from some far place. Today we met and melded our emotions. Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. Loose lyrics on Hollywood dreams, galaxy economy, and algorithm poetry, banned and warped in drama industrial, synth-journey-music, ghost pop, anger electronics, and analogue deserts. Improvised recording sessions for epochs where head liquefies the concrete. It’s all about fashion, now, that we have recession. Dressed to kill with murder fabrics. The anger of the machines. The happiness in their language. Inkasso & ML asked themselves"

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Graintable

Tape | 2025 | UK | Original (Music To Watch Seeds Grow By)

Otherworld Golden Tape Edition

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Portland-based ambient architect and far afield sound technician Graintable, aka James Cooke returns with his debut outing on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By and his fourth in the R$N stable; 'Blue Flax'. Following his acclaimed and sold out cassette releases 'Herons', 'Universal Ash' and ‘The Rain In The Trees’ on Ransom Note Records, this new collection sees Cooke delving deeper into the intersection of natural processes and liminal organic electronics.

'Blue Flax', the resilient flowering plant celebrated for its delicate blue blooms and medicinal applications, is native to the Pacific Northwest - the region Cooke calls home. This plant has long grown on the ancestral lands of the Wasco, Klickitat, Warm Springs, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes. Its connection to this landscape underscores the album’s themes, weaving together ten intricate ambient pieces that reflect the plant's dual nature of part healer, part object of wonder. Recorded during the transitional hours of dawn and dusk in his Portland studio, Cooke’s soundscapes capture both the meditative aspects of watching plants grow and the gradual transformation of organic matter into usable forms. The centrepiece of the album Cerulian FIelds, reminds of the early morning light, those inspiring hours before the rest of the world wakes and the first shoots break through the soil into the new dawn. It’s a beautiful crystallisation of what is Cooke’s most comprehensive collection of meditative compositions to date.

For fans of: Steve Roach, Alessandro Cortini, Suzanne Ciani, Davis Galvin

Early support including: Courtesy, Laurent Garnier, Massimiliano Pagliara, DJ Harvey, Domenic Capello

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Jessie Frye

Tape | 2025 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

Figure X Destryur

Frightmare

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (First Light)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Welcome to the darkness. Destryur and Figure come together to make a powerful horrorfilled synthfest. A must for all Darksynthlovers.

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J. Doursou

The Deafening Veil

Memoosh (Memotone & Soosh)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following on from his 2022 debut release on American Dreams Records, 'Choreographies of Decay', J. Doursou offers a critical reflection in 'The Deafening Veil' of the West's warped relationship with war in other regions.
The Deafening Veil has early support with reviews confirmed with Mojo Magazine, Headphone Commute (single premiere), A Closer Listen, and Noise Narrative. A writer from Quietus is also pitching to editorial with a review TBC. Doursou began the creative process of the album when Russia invaded Ukraine. The album's lead single, 'song for Elena', is a tribute to Doursou's close friend from Ukraine. The rest of the album critiques the silence that surrounds war in other regions.

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Livetape Bristol, April 2022

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Termina)

Megalithic Statues Of Vishapakar

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mesmerizing live one takers from Soroosh Khavari & Will Yates recorded in Bristol, April 2022.

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Andra Ljos

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Remecier)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The fourth album by Vilnius-based composer Aleksandra Evseeva aka Andra Ljos is as runic and ritualistic as the Bronze Age monoliths for which it’s named: Megalithic Statues of Vishapakar. Found mainly in the Armenian Highlands, vishaps are cigar-shaped slabs of stone carved with fish heads or snakes, depicting a sacred serpent of Armenian folklore thought to protect sources of water from drought and ruin. The music evokes a similarly arcane and devotional air, between raga, séance, and 4th world hallucination.

The track titles allude to significant vishap discovery sites, spanning lakes, bays, mountains, and temples. Wood block percussion wobbles beneath lattices of looped keys, golden organ, synthetic strings and flutes, distant birds, muffled voices, and the soft wash of restless waters. Evseeva’s muse may be mined from her Armenian heritage but the songs conjure a mood more elusive and expansive – pensive pastorals for a land of long shadows and ancient fears, strewn with cryptic relics swiftly dissipating into myth.

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Remer Cier X Deepart

Échange 1:1

Tape | 2025 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Deepart, vétéran de la Techno bizarre Londonienne des années 90 et l’artiste inaugural du label Rush Hour, rencontra Remer Cier, debutant sur Youth, à Plastic People, lors de la soirée séminale CDR, un set improvisé de nouvelle musique électronique. Après presque 20 ans de dialogue erudite, de performances et expositions au Chelsea College of Art et au Royal College of Art, nous présentons leur collection d’improvisations afrofuturistes, enregistrée au Beaconsfield Gallery, Vauxhall, Londres en 2021.

Dédié à Søren Holm et tous amis absents

Merci à Joviale, collaboratice au dessin

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Alex Marsh

Trellis

Tape | 2025 | EU | Original (blundar)

Release: 2025 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After almost a decade of exploratory ambient activity under other aliases, Australia-based musician Alex Marsh presents their first eponymous work: Trellis. The title refers to the music’s “triple-woven” palette of autoharp, upright piano and an old Yamaha keyboard, arranged in diffuse configurations of fragrant smoke and sunlit dust. Accented with clarinet, chimes, bells, and cymbals, the pieces breathe more than build, pooling and dispersing in what Marsh describes as “horizontal ecosystems of sound.”

The album’s mode of improvisation feels uniquely open and indeterminate, guided by a careful alchemy of tonal color and the resonance of interacting sound layers. Wisps of keys bloom and bend in the mist; strings thrum and glow; hushed vibrations stretch like clouds in a quiet sky. In both muse and method, Trellis embraces blurred boundaries and unseen forces, tracing small sonic moments into a yearning mosaic of suspended animatio

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Nrl:Ndr

Untitled

Tape | 2025 | EU | Original (Knekelhuis)

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Blundar is introducing the world to the Malmö-based producer known as nrl:ndr through both an album and a cassette release. As is their modus operandi, there are no titles provided for either. Instead speaking through sound and sleeve photos, we are induced into an intricate maze of synthesizer experiments and urban architecture studies. While the album is a curated sequence of shortened tracks, the cassette can be seen as a complementing study of the producer’s work. Moving closer to the core of the creative process, we are treated with two longform compositions in their full unedited splendor. Layering dry creaking ambience around building kick patterns that disintegrate into abstract rhythms, nrl:ndr walks us through a minimalist soundscape that still burstles with organic life and psychedelic reverberations.

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MOAB

Laws Ov Nature

Tape | 2025 | EU | Original (Edicoes CN)

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Montreal, Quebec. A vast, adorned studio—an after-midnight sanctuary for the Moab collective. Outside, winter carves its presence, the snow piling high against the factory’s walls. Inside, time dissolves into a sprawling, 24-hour reverie—music unfolding in an endless current, every moment captured, distilled, refined.

Moab is a Montreal-based collective that embraces improvisation as its guiding force. Long, unbroken sessions where intuition eclipses thought, and where the body moves before the mind. This is their first offering, released on Knekelhuis. A document of instinct, frozen in time yet endlessly shifting.

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Gavin-Vanaelst

Takeaway Loops

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Neuropa)

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Gavin Vanaelst runs the space Aboli Bibelot in Antwerp where exhibitions and musical performances can happen side to side with dealings in centuries-old furniture and unique pieces of folk art or volkskunst. Gavin makes music under the aliases DJ Charme, Kassett and So Sorry. This is the first album under his birth name. Takeaway Loops cycles back to the days when Gavin was working as a courier for Takeaway.

Takeaway is a food delivery company. Their couriers - ehm, brand ambassadors, as the company prefers to call them - dressed in bright orange, they race their bikes around the city. They deliver meals and groceries for all sorts. Thanks to them, the privileged can stay tucked in their private spaces. Interaction between the two groups - the privileged and the brand ambassadors - is mostly kept to the bare minimum. And sparse communications are often driven by annoyances - “my Coke is warm because you kept it too close to the French Fries.” And on the streets the general public dis-approaches the brand ambassadors with pity. We tell our peers: “That’s not a good job,” and “stay away from the Sharing Economy.” Because, you know, in our capitalistic dollhouse we all stand our grounds and play our parts wholeheartedly.

During his shifts for Takeaway, Gavin recorded location sounds on his phone at fast food restaurants while waiting on the orders he had to pick up and deliver. Later in his home studio Gavin added piano and electronics to this source material. The result: a gloomy soundtrack for a shadow world. Seven songs in evening blue with a bright orange glare.

A few years ago, our favorite Belgian publishing house Het Balanseer released Seizoenarbeid by Heike Geissler (available in English trough Semiotext(e)). Geissler writes about her job at Amazon in Leipzig. Because her writing and freelance work did not pay the bills any longer, she was forced towards this underprivileged shadow-world of unwanted jobs. Seizoenarbeid shed a light on freedom in an unfree world. A monument of 'we are all in this, but not together'. Takeaway Loops gives us a similar peak in a world that is at the same time so visible, but then also very veiled for many. A world that we prefer to use, yet that most of us prefer not to see - a world that we don’t like to enter.

Last year at Harbourland subway station in Kobe, I was mesmerized by the sound design created by Hiroshi Yoshimura. For each part of the subway station he composed a short phrase. While walking trough the station, a full composition grows in your head. The looping melodies guide you trough a microworld. Trough a blue world of commuters, of the homeless, of the lonely, of the fast paced, of the tourist. Gavin creates a similar effect with Takeaway Loops. The tonality somehow corresponds to Yoshimura’s work. Yet instead of being guided trough a building, we are now taken to the after dark. You feel the concrete evening heat of the city. You hear the rain. Stiff fingers during cold winters’ nights. You are alone on the bike, cruising. Your maps app telling you where to go. You just left the fake leather bench of the well-lit pastiche interior of a fast food restaurant.

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Boucle Infinie

Summit

Julien Dechery & Ivan Liechti

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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'Summit', the long awaited sequel of 直線移動, embarks on a journey through nostalgic and futuristic landscapes, featuring 3 original remixes by Volkor X, Cartoon Theory and The Algorithm.Available as a very limited cassette, complete with full shell printing, oversleeve and OBI-strip. A1. EscapeA2. ContemplationA3. SolitudeA4. MonumentB1. DistanceB2. Escape (Cartoon Theory Remix)B3. Monument (Volkor X Remix)B4. Distance (The Algorithm Remix)

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Peekaboo

Tape | 2025 | UK | Original (The Trilogy Tapes)

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Closer To The Thing That Fled

Susu Laroche

Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Accidental Meetings)

Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Goods Outward)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Susu Laroche's piercing vocals and dungeon dabke sound makes a superb LP on Accidental Meetings. Tip! Susu Laroche is a French-Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist who has had previous collaborations with Klein, Oxhy, Blackhaine, Nkisi, Flora Yin-Wong & Mica Levi to name a few. Her album lands on Accidental Meetings, giving full insight into the mind of this superb artist. The LP, mostly inspired by Ursula L Guins Earthsea, follows the narrative of a shadow/gebbeth stalking oneself and trying to overpower the phases of one submitting to & resisting it. Susu's voice demonstrates the gebbeth, using her voice as an instrument, representing it in various proximities but also at times it represents the soul in various states responding to the gebbeth. The backing and verse then operate as a call and response between the gebbeth and the soul. Many lyrics are inspired and formed from a Persian book of poetry and the cut-up technique style within it. Her trademark dark & harrowing sound is prominent throughout, taking influence from dabke rhythms.

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Leyden Jars

Forgeries

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Living World's Demands

Ami Dang

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Leaving)

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hailing from Baltimore, Punjabi-American sitar player, songwriter and ambient musician Ami Dang unites the disparate worlds of Indian classical music and dreamy synth-infused song composition on beguiling new album The Living World’s Demands. Envisioned as a lament to the challenges to which humanity has subjected the world and itself, Ami Dang’s newest album builds on the floating, blissful ambience of 2019’s Parted Plains and the vocal-led, pop structures of 2020 collaborative release Galdre Visions (a bona fide ambient supergroup also featuring Green-House and Nailah Hunter). The Living World’s Demands is an immensely evocative and expressive collection, just as complex, nuanced and precious as the living world in its title. Within are themes of trauma, survival, resistance, desperation and righteous vitriol, responding to greed, fear and injustice, yet the music is often euphoric, disarming and breathtakingly beautiful. Lilting sitar lines sparkle about an unpredictably broad spectrum of synthesis; Indian classical percussion rattles and snakes through its drum programming. And atop, Ami’s astonishing singing voice - with lyrics of English and Punjabi - deftly weaves her two worlds together with silken threads of both contemporary and traditional textures. Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang has studied North Indian classical music (voice and sitar) in both New Delhi and Maryland, and she also holds a degree in music technology & composition from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Following in the footsteps of artists like Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, she seeks to advance the sound of contemporary experimental, pop, and electronic music with the sounds of South Asia—through vocals and sitar, ragas, and sampling. She has collaborated with Animal Collective, William Cashion (of Future Islands), James Acaster, Thor Harris—to name a few. She has performed onstage with Beach House, black midi, Grimes, Lower Dens, Florist and more. The Living World’s Demands is a co-release between Phantom Limb and LA’s Leaving Records.

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Wave Temples

Portals

Temporary Requiem - A Mass For Dance

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Expansion pack of Wave Temples transmissions accompanying the Panama Shift vinyl suite. Its creator contextualizes Portals as the first volume in a tarot-style card game of the same name, to be used for divining prophetic strategies. Each of the 13 pieces here unfolds like a glimpse to an inner realm – or a past life. Hazed vignettes of primitivist anthropological fantasia, warbly and windswept, suffused with déjà vu. Insects and macaws sing from the periphery, while beach fires glow along an abandoned coast, the tide like a language lost in the tunnels of time.

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MJ Guider

Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Modemain)

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Spomenik)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Stunning liturgical shoegaze from Kranky’s Melissa Guion aka MJ Guider, originally released a couple of years back on a limited tape and now available once again in a new edition for 2023. Fuelled by pulsing drum machines, bells and an exceptionally expressive voice, it hits so many buttons for us all at once so as to feel like we’ve known it a lifetime, reminding us of sections of Cocteau Twins, Seefeel, Tropic of Cancer, Preisner’s ‘No End’ score, Cranes - but still in possession of its own unquantifiable spirit. Recorded as a music score to ‘Known Mass. No. 3: St. Maurice’, a collaboration with friend and choreographer Ann Glaviano, ‘Temporary Requiem’ makes use of the traditional Latin requiem mass across 6 movements designed to help transport “the congregation” to the dreamworld. The 10 minute opener ‘Kyrie: The Stained Glass Windows in Their Original Order’ opens from choral drones into a sort of rumbling dreampop reminding us of AFX’s reworking of Seefeel’s ‘Time To Find Me’, the melodic lead supplied by a padded bassline wrapped around countless layers of texture and sweeping, filtered hi hats. ‘Gloria: Small Dance of Gratitude’ re-purposes the thudding kickdrum opening Cocteau Twins’ ‘When mama was moth’, but swerves through a vocal keychange into something else entirely, all detached vocal yearning somewhere between love song and lament. Guion’s vocals have always been impressive but feel especially devastating here, leaving enough space for each sound to respire; ducking around slow-motion beatbox cycles and queasy electronics. She binds her biographical litany of inspirations into a coherent blast of pseudo- plainsong and ethereal post-punk, her voice tripping from morose low-registers into layered choral cascades that genuinely made this listener bottle up in a gulp. When we reach ‘Sanctus’ - the album’s shortest piece, a tape-rotted chant dissolves into an angelic aria. It’s an apt preface for ‘Benedictus’, the moment we’re shifted into gnarly droning landscapes of distended drone and saturated distortion. Somehow the tenor adjustment works, deepening Guion’s narrative and drawing parallels between vastly different forms of post-Catholic musical expression - there’s truly no light without darkness. On the finale ‘Agnus-Dei’, she bolts together both strains of expression, singing over walls of harmonic guitar fuzz and a drum machine that sounds like machinery pushing through sandstone blocks. The noise abates before the track dims to a flicker, as Guion’s operatic wails spiral deep into the pious abyss...

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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

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